Nutrition
Daily Nutrition Tips: 10 Habits that Compound Over Time
Forget vilifying single nutrients. The real wins in nutrition come from ten small habits that you repeat every day for years.
By Blue Zone Nutrition Team5 min read
If you repeat a habit every day for a year, you have done it 365 times. Most of the modern chronic-disease burden comes from habits that compound negatively — and the same is true when they compound positively.
The ten habits
- Eat a protein-rich breakfast
- Eat two cups of vegetables at lunch
- Walk for ten minutes after each main meal
- Have one piece of whole fruit as an afternoon snack
- Avoid sugary drinks after 6pm
- Cook dinner at home four nights a week
- Finish dinner at least three hours before sleep
- Take a daily omega-3 and vitamin D
- Sleep seven to eight hours
How to start
Pick three. Stick to them for a month. Add two more the next month. Within a season you have transformed your day-to-day nutrition without ever dieting.